Quotes About Struggle

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

I'm in the depths of despair! (Anne of Green Gables)

Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant…

Nothing worth while is every easy come by.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

I doubted God last Sunday said Rilla but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.

It would be so much easier to be good if one's hair was handsome auburn, don't you think?

Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture.

I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it

Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.

hate's got to be a disease with me.

Even skeptical Dan prayed, his skepticism falling away from him like a discarded garment in this valley of the shadow, which sifts out hearts and tries souls, until we all, grown-up or children, realize our weakness, and, finding that our own puny strength is as a reed shaken in the wind, creep back humbly to the God we have vainly dreamed we could do without.

At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.

Remember it is harder still To have no work to do